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Back when I was maybe seven years old I went to this kids birthday party. I got him an ant farm with tubes.
Later on when all the kids were playing together in his room without adults, he pulled the roll of clear plastic tubing out of ant farm box, he shoved one end up his ass and then started sucking on the other end.
It's nice to know that he is still alive and tweeting.
I'm having a hard time envisioning the flexibility required to make that work. It couldn't have been both at the ends at the same time? Also, did this kid just get naked in front of everyone at their party? To each their own, I guess.
The great thing about the Internet is that it lets everyone spout off about things they know nothing about.
This has to be bait lmao
"If I have to be miserable, so does everyone else."
Yup, that's the kind of mindset a lot of these kinds of people have.
This is either bait or an incredible bit.
Almost instinctively downvoted after reading what's gotta be a bot post or a bad joke. Gross.
I am with this person
I'm pretty sure that's actually a fish.
That's a bot, right? That can't be real.
I've met plenty of idiots. Some days, I'm probably one of them. But I don't think I've ever come across someone who's pro anti-piracy. Usually people are just neutral about it. Even the most law-abiding people I know, when I've told them I can download movies for free, are like "Oh, are you able to get this movie for me? Thanks!"
Had to look up whatever 'Legends online' was and it turns out its a tacked on multiplayer mode for Ghost of Tsushima. Who the fuck plays garbage multiplayer like that and who in their right minds pays for PS plus to play that?
"Please use your boot to step on me harder, daddy corpo!"
stop making it sound so hawt
Gabe Newell: "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."
'It's not fair that we keep getting scammed and others don't'
So just don't give them money next time?
'LALALALA I can't hear you, it's your fault not mine LALALALA'
As well as Denuvo please also make it rely on Windows-only bugs so that we can be extra sure that those dirty Linux users are kept away, and it's not fair that foreigners get to enjoy things in their own language so make sure there's no localization for other countries. And I'd rather not have to know that disabled people can also play so make sure there's none of that "accessibility" crap in there slowing things down. And I heard that telemetry makes everything better so please make sure it records everything we do and reports it all back to headquarters, that really makes games better. Also it'd be nice if there were more ads to keep us entertained while it loads. Okay thanks. You guys are doing a great job. — Signed, a perfectly normal user
Sadly Denuvo runs pretty well on Wine nowadays. Otherwise Steamdeck users might have had some voice in opposing it.
signed, Hugh Mann
If you ride a bus without a ticket, other passengers will have to pay more because upkeep and salaries are more or less a fixed cost. That is if you can afford the ticket, it's irrelevant otherwise. Also depends on profit margins but I think it explains the point.
Not necessarily. The bus will still operate, if you ride on it or not. The cost is the same.
If say 20% of passengers don't pay and you have to get more buses and drivers because of that. Then it'll affect prices.
Just as pirating Netflix movies without ever having the intention of paying for them is the same outcome as not watching them.
Maybe worse for Netflix since you won't tell your friends about it. There are studies that prove this effect.
If no-one pirated any Sony game do you think they would.
A) Lower the price of the game to maintain their existing profit margin.
B) Set a lower price that increases their margin.
C) Keep the higher price and just make a fuck ton more money.
"Fuck them, I've got mine" pro-capitalist mindset in the wild.
this person was the kid back in middle school who reminded the teacher about the homework
People downvoting your comment are the kids back in middle school who reminded the teacher about the homework
Wrong, I was that kid and I hate denuvo just like everybody else.
Also I don't think it works as an analogy, the kid reminding the teacher about homework does it because he likes school, and learning, he does it for himself and everybody else, he never imagine other kids would not like it. This guy doesn't do this for himself or others, he does this out of spite of others, to punish people, he doesn't gain anything.
I love this anology so much. It's something everyone can relate to. It's something so incredibly low and despised that you can't understand why it exists, but it's also so very common.
Hall monitor type for fucking sure
And then piracy will be the only way to play as people do NOT like to deal with Denuvo (and for good reason)
Corporate narks are the worst kind
The "it's not fair we pay for these games for them to then be pirated" says it all, it's not about the company becoming bankrupt because of piracy, it's because they don't want to feel bad once they have been scammed with a half made game that others have gotten for free. Because a half made game should be worthless
What a strange mentality. When I pay for things I want, I'm generally happy to support the creator. If others can't, why would I be upset if they get the product for free? It means more people can also enjoy the thing I like.
It's such a crab bucket mentality, I couldn't imagine living life being constantly bitter.
I can think of a couple ways this post makes sense. For example, if Denuvo paid this commenter to make this post.
That makes a lot of sense actually. In fact I wouldn't doubt this to be some scummy social engineering firm.
lol